RIAA
I think RIAA are after the wrong people if one in three CDs sold is a pirate copy.
Surely they should be fighting the people making money out of pirate
copies before taking on the people that download mp3s?
...or is it just that "civilians" are an easier target than organised
crime rings?
I wonder how much music they actually downloaded to have RIAA bust them.
Surely they should be fighting the people making money out of pirate
copies before taking on the people that download mp3s?
...or is it just that "civilians" are an easier target than organised
crime rings?
I wonder how much music they actually downloaded to have RIAA bust them.
posted by Mark at
09:07
3 Comments:
So one reason that so many pirated CDs can be sold is that many countries, especially developing ones, don't have copyright laws. In fact I'm typing this from one such country right now (where pirated material is the only material available). So they just don't have grounds for legal action in many places.
In addition, it's the recording industry association of *america* meaning they only have legal recourse in the US and whatever other nations *choose* to listen to them.
So that's why the downloaders get the brunt of it. And those who get busted usually have heaps of music which they share, and having downloaded/shared movies will get you sued even faster.
True. The article dosen't say where those CDs are being sold. One in three is a suprisingly large percentage of the market though for CDs.
Agreed.
But if you consider the fact that those of us in developed countries are buying fewer and fewer CDs as we download more and more, then the rampant pirating in developing countries incl. the massive markets in China becomes a larger and larger percentage of overall sales.
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